Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Spring fashion at the farmers market - KOMO News
It’s officially spring, which means going to the farmer’s market should definitely be part of your weekend routine. We are lucky to have Pike Place Market year round, but the other little markets that pop up in places like Ballard and West Seattle really do bring a vibrancy to our city.
I know it may sound silly to get dressed up to go to the farmers market, but the effortless cool style that we all try to pull off is meant for places like this.
On any given sunny weekend day, you will find the markets alive with people. People want to be outside and surrounded by beautiful things. The colorful fruit, vegetables and flowers are a definite draw. I believe it’s the spring color vibes that influence people to have a little more fun with their fashion.
It’s perfectly fine to dress in our usual winter blacks, but that bright dress you’ve had packed away since last year or that new romper you just bought can finally come out to play here.
Now it’s not warm enough to wear a spring dress without a jacket, and a must-have spring staple is the jean jacket. It also perfectly complements anything bright you may want to wear. But don’t put away your winter coats just yet. If you’re a weekend early riser the weather is still crisp, but mix in a pair of colorful pants to spring it up.
How about the shoes? You will most likely be walking for over an hour and carrying all of your finds with you. So, flats are perfect. The hot shoe trend for spring is prints.
Have fun with it. That’s really the essence of the farmers market. It’s a place to enjoy yourself and relish in spring colors. So, break out your dresses, colorful scarves, jean jackets and fun shoes and head down to the farmers market this weekend.
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Magazine founder/editor from South Brunswick launches a fashion collection - MyCentralJersey.com
Although, the fabrics are from India, Tirusha Dave’s clothing designs differ from traditional Indian clothing. Tank tops, cropped tops, bared midriffs and more are featured in many of her designs.
A teacher by day and a magazine editor/writer by night, Dave’s fashion design sketches were just a hobby in what little spare time she had. But after friends and co-workers kept encouraging her, Dave, of South Brunswick, took the sketches to fashion show producers. As a result, her debut collection of resort wear was showcased during Atlantic City Fashion Week in February.
“I had been sketching for a while, and people kept telling me your sketches are really good, you should really pursue it,” she said. “I had a lot of feedback from fashion show producers and models, so I took a leap of faith, linked up with a tailor and put together my debut.”
Dave said she sold many of the pieces in her collection at the show and is now exploring ways to continue to manufacture more pieces and continue to show her collection.
She was already involved in the fashion industry through her position as editor of the online South Asian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, called Bravura Magazine, which Dave started. “I have always been interested in writing and fashion, so the magazine combined my interests, and it filled a void.” Dave started Bravura after she graduated from college, after having built her reputation as a writer, publishing in numerous South Asian publications.
“I have been very fortunate, interviewing and meeting numerous Bollywood celebrities, such as director Kunal Kohli.” She said she had also worked with many other Bollywood stars. “Our magazine has been invited to major fashion events, such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Couture Fashion Week and Atlantic City Fashion Week.” She said they had also been invited to mainstream movie premieres such as Superman and The Great Gatsby.
She explained her reasoning for starting the magazine. “When I was doing my writing internships in college, there wasn’t that one online portal that catered to any reader in our generation, it was either gender-specific or subject-specific. I really wanted to mix it up. I also felt there was a lack of a South Asian magazine for the younger generation.”
(Page 2 of 2)
Dave said her background, having Indian parents, but being born in the U.S., made her uniquely aware of the void in the magazine area. Likewise, her fashion interests combined her Indian heritage with her U.S. background. “I am not a traditional Indian designer,” she laughed. “Not with my resort wear, bikinis and cropped tops. But people, both Indian and non-Indian were very responsive. I had so many people coming up to me wanting to buy my things after the show. It was really wonderful.”
“I am in the process of making a web page and having more pieces made,” Dave said. She added that she thought the show was so successful in part because it “represented my heritage and culture. It was not completely Indian and not completely American. It’s my western side mixed with my non-western side. It seemed to appeal to a lot of people. I also had some full-figured pieces and some full-figured models. I think as a result it appealed to more people. They could see themselves wearing it on vacation. Not everyone is a size zero. The average woman is a 12 or 14.”
She said when she decided to do the show, she just thought it would be a good experience, and never imagined she would get the large outpouring of interest. “I had a lot of fun doing it. It was an amazing experience, and the reception was beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” she said.
For more about the magazine, check http://ift.tt/1hXfdYs and http://ift.tt/1jSu1hX.
For more about her fashion designs, check http://ift.tt/1okk2Ux.
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Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Spring fashion at the farmers market - KOMO News
It’s officially spring, which means going to the farmer’s market should definitely be part of your weekend routine. We are lucky to have Pike Place Market year round, but the other little markets that pop up in places like Ballard and West Seattle really do bring a vibrancy to our city.
I know it may sound silly to get dressed up to go to the farmers market, but the effortless cool style that we all try to pull off is meant for places like this.
On any given sunny weekend day, you will find the markets alive with people. People want to be outside and surrounded by beautiful things. The colorful fruit, vegetables and flowers are a definite draw. I believe it’s the spring color vibes that influence people to have a little more fun with their fashion.
It’s perfectly fine to dress in our usual winter blacks, but that bright dress you’ve had packed away since last year or that new romper you just bought can finally come out to play here.
Now it’s not warm enough to wear a spring dress without a jacket, and a must-have spring staple is the jean jacket. It also perfectly complements anything bright you may want to wear. But don’t put away your winter coats just yet. If you’re a weekend early riser the weather is still crisp, but mix in a pair of colorful pants to spring it up.
How about the shoes? You will most likely be walking for over an hour and carrying all of your finds with you. So, flats are perfect. The hot shoe trend for spring is prints.
Have fun with it. That’s really the essence of the farmers market. It’s a place to enjoy yourself and relish in spring colors. So, break out your dresses, colorful scarves, jean jackets and fun shoes and head down to the farmers market this weekend.
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Magazine founder/editor from South Brunswick launches a fashion collection - MyCentralJersey.com
Although, the fabrics are from India, Tirusha Dave’s clothing designs differ from traditional Indian clothing. Tank tops, cropped tops, bared midriffs and more are featured in many of her designs.
A teacher by day and a magazine editor/writer by night, Dave’s fashion design sketches were just a hobby in what little spare time she had. But after friends and co-workers kept encouraging her, Dave, of South Brunswick, took the sketches to fashion show producers. As a result, her debut collection of resort wear was showcased during Atlantic City Fashion Week in February.
“I had been sketching for a while, and people kept telling me your sketches are really good, you should really pursue it,” she said. “I had a lot of feedback from fashion show producers and models, so I took a leap of faith, linked up with a tailor and put together my debut.”
Dave said she sold many of the pieces in her collection at the show and is now exploring ways to continue to manufacture more pieces and continue to show her collection.
She was already involved in the fashion industry through her position as editor of the online South Asian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, called Bravura Magazine, which Dave started. “I have always been interested in writing and fashion, so the magazine combined my interests, and it filled a void.” Dave started Bravura after she graduated from college, after having built her reputation as a writer, publishing in numerous South Asian publications.
“I have been very fortunate, interviewing and meeting numerous Bollywood celebrities, such as director Kunal Kohli.” She said she had also worked with many other Bollywood stars. “Our magazine has been invited to major fashion events, such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Couture Fashion Week and Atlantic City Fashion Week.” She said they had also been invited to mainstream movie premieres such as Superman and The Great Gatsby.
She explained her reasoning for starting the magazine. “When I was doing my writing internships in college, there wasn’t that one online portal that catered to any reader in our generation, it was either gender-specific or subject-specific. I really wanted to mix it up. I also felt there was a lack of a South Asian magazine for the younger generation.”
(Page 2 of 2)
Dave said her background, having Indian parents, but being born in the U.S., made her uniquely aware of the void in the magazine area. Likewise, her fashion interests combined her Indian heritage with her U.S. background. “I am not a traditional Indian designer,” she laughed. “Not with my resort wear, bikinis and cropped tops. But people, both Indian and non-Indian were very responsive. I had so many people coming up to me wanting to buy my things after the show. It was really wonderful.”
“I am in the process of making a web page and having more pieces made,” Dave said. She added that she thought the show was so successful in part because it “represented my heritage and culture. It was not completely Indian and not completely American. It’s my western side mixed with my non-western side. It seemed to appeal to a lot of people. I also had some full-figured pieces and some full-figured models. I think as a result it appealed to more people. They could see themselves wearing it on vacation. Not everyone is a size zero. The average woman is a 12 or 14.”
She said when she decided to do the show, she just thought it would be a good experience, and never imagined she would get the large outpouring of interest. “I had a lot of fun doing it. It was an amazing experience, and the reception was beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” she said.
For more about the magazine, check http://ift.tt/1hXfdYs and http://ift.tt/1jSu1hX.
For more about her fashion designs, check http://ift.tt/1okk2Ux.
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Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Spring fashion at the farmers market - KOMO News
It’s officially spring, which means going to the farmer’s market should definitely be part of your weekend routine. We are lucky to have Pike Place Market year round, but the other little markets that pop up in places like Ballard and West Seattle really do bring a vibrancy to our city.
I know it may sound silly to get dressed up to go to the farmers market, but the effortless cool style that we all try to pull off is meant for places like this.
On any given sunny weekend day, you will find the markets alive with people. People want to be outside and surrounded by beautiful things. The colorful fruit, vegetables and flowers are a definite draw. I believe it’s the spring color vibes that influence people to have a little more fun with their fashion.
It’s perfectly fine to dress in our usual winter blacks, but that bright dress you’ve had packed away since last year or that new romper you just bought can finally come out to play here.
Now it’s not warm enough to wear a spring dress without a jacket, and a must-have spring staple is the jean jacket. It also perfectly complements anything bright you may want to wear. But don’t put away your winter coats just yet. If you’re a weekend early riser the weather is still crisp, but mix in a pair of colorful pants to spring it up.
How about the shoes? You will most likely be walking for over an hour and carrying all of your finds with you. So, flats are perfect. The hot shoe trend for spring is prints.
Have fun with it. That’s really the essence of the farmers market. It’s a place to enjoy yourself and relish in spring colors. So, break out your dresses, colorful scarves, jean jackets and fun shoes and head down to the farmers market this weekend.
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Magazine founder/editor from South Brunswick launches a fashion collection - MyCentralJersey.com
Although, the fabrics are from India, Tirusha Dave’s clothing designs differ from traditional Indian clothing. Tank tops, cropped tops, bared midriffs and more are featured in many of her designs.
A teacher by day and a magazine editor/writer by night, Dave’s fashion design sketches were just a hobby in what little spare time she had. But after friends and co-workers kept encouraging her, Dave, of South Brunswick, took the sketches to fashion show producers. As a result, her debut collection of resort wear was showcased during Atlantic City Fashion Week in February.
“I had been sketching for a while, and people kept telling me your sketches are really good, you should really pursue it,” she said. “I had a lot of feedback from fashion show producers and models, so I took a leap of faith, linked up with a tailor and put together my debut.”
Dave said she sold many of the pieces in her collection at the show and is now exploring ways to continue to manufacture more pieces and continue to show her collection.
She was already involved in the fashion industry through her position as editor of the online South Asian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, called Bravura Magazine, which Dave started. “I have always been interested in writing and fashion, so the magazine combined my interests, and it filled a void.” Dave started Bravura after she graduated from college, after having built her reputation as a writer, publishing in numerous South Asian publications.
“I have been very fortunate, interviewing and meeting numerous Bollywood celebrities, such as director Kunal Kohli.” She said she had also worked with many other Bollywood stars. “Our magazine has been invited to major fashion events, such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Couture Fashion Week and Atlantic City Fashion Week.” She said they had also been invited to mainstream movie premieres such as Superman and The Great Gatsby.
She explained her reasoning for starting the magazine. “When I was doing my writing internships in college, there wasn’t that one online portal that catered to any reader in our generation, it was either gender-specific or subject-specific. I really wanted to mix it up. I also felt there was a lack of a South Asian magazine for the younger generation.”
(Page 2 of 2)
Dave said her background, having Indian parents, but being born in the U.S., made her uniquely aware of the void in the magazine area. Likewise, her fashion interests combined her Indian heritage with her U.S. background. “I am not a traditional Indian designer,” she laughed. “Not with my resort wear, bikinis and cropped tops. But people, both Indian and non-Indian were very responsive. I had so many people coming up to me wanting to buy my things after the show. It was really wonderful.”
“I am in the process of making a web page and having more pieces made,” Dave said. She added that she thought the show was so successful in part because it “represented my heritage and culture. It was not completely Indian and not completely American. It’s my western side mixed with my non-western side. It seemed to appeal to a lot of people. I also had some full-figured pieces and some full-figured models. I think as a result it appealed to more people. They could see themselves wearing it on vacation. Not everyone is a size zero. The average woman is a 12 or 14.”
She said when she decided to do the show, she just thought it would be a good experience, and never imagined she would get the large outpouring of interest. “I had a lot of fun doing it. It was an amazing experience, and the reception was beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” she said.
For more about the magazine, check http://ift.tt/1hXfdYs and http://ift.tt/1jSu1hX.
For more about her fashion designs, check http://ift.tt/1okk2Ux.
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Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Spring fashion at the farmers market - KOMO News
It’s officially spring, which means going to the farmer’s market should definitely be part of your weekend routine. We are lucky to have Pike Place Market year round, but the other little markets that pop up in places like Ballard and West Seattle really do bring a vibrancy to our city.
I know it may sound silly to get dressed up to go to the farmers market, but the effortless cool style that we all try to pull off is meant for places like this.
On any given sunny weekend day, you will find the markets alive with people. People want to be outside and surrounded by beautiful things. The colorful fruit, vegetables and flowers are a definite draw. I believe it’s the spring color vibes that influence people to have a little more fun with their fashion.
It’s perfectly fine to dress in our usual winter blacks, but that bright dress you’ve had packed away since last year or that new romper you just bought can finally come out to play here.
Now it’s not warm enough to wear a spring dress without a jacket, and a must-have spring staple is the jean jacket. It also perfectly complements anything bright you may want to wear. But don’t put away your winter coats just yet. If you’re a weekend early riser the weather is still crisp, but mix in a pair of colorful pants to spring it up.
How about the shoes? You will most likely be walking for over an hour and carrying all of your finds with you. So, flats are perfect. The hot shoe trend for spring is prints.
Have fun with it. That’s really the essence of the farmers market. It’s a place to enjoy yourself and relish in spring colors. So, break out your dresses, colorful scarves, jean jackets and fun shoes and head down to the farmers market this weekend.
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Magazine founder/editor from South Brunswick launches a fashion collection - MyCentralJersey.com
Although, the fabrics are from India, Tirusha Dave’s clothing designs differ from traditional Indian clothing. Tank tops, cropped tops, bared midriffs and more are featured in many of her designs.
A teacher by day and a magazine editor/writer by night, Dave’s fashion design sketches were just a hobby in what little spare time she had. But after friends and co-workers kept encouraging her, Dave, of South Brunswick, took the sketches to fashion show producers. As a result, her debut collection of resort wear was showcased during Atlantic City Fashion Week in February.
“I had been sketching for a while, and people kept telling me your sketches are really good, you should really pursue it,” she said. “I had a lot of feedback from fashion show producers and models, so I took a leap of faith, linked up with a tailor and put together my debut.”
Dave said she sold many of the pieces in her collection at the show and is now exploring ways to continue to manufacture more pieces and continue to show her collection.
She was already involved in the fashion industry through her position as editor of the online South Asian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, called Bravura Magazine, which Dave started. “I have always been interested in writing and fashion, so the magazine combined my interests, and it filled a void.” Dave started Bravura after she graduated from college, after having built her reputation as a writer, publishing in numerous South Asian publications.
“I have been very fortunate, interviewing and meeting numerous Bollywood celebrities, such as director Kunal Kohli.” She said she had also worked with many other Bollywood stars. “Our magazine has been invited to major fashion events, such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Couture Fashion Week and Atlantic City Fashion Week.” She said they had also been invited to mainstream movie premieres such as Superman and The Great Gatsby.
She explained her reasoning for starting the magazine. “When I was doing my writing internships in college, there wasn’t that one online portal that catered to any reader in our generation, it was either gender-specific or subject-specific. I really wanted to mix it up. I also felt there was a lack of a South Asian magazine for the younger generation.”
(Page 2 of 2)
Dave said her background, having Indian parents, but being born in the U.S., made her uniquely aware of the void in the magazine area. Likewise, her fashion interests combined her Indian heritage with her U.S. background. “I am not a traditional Indian designer,” she laughed. “Not with my resort wear, bikinis and cropped tops. But people, both Indian and non-Indian were very responsive. I had so many people coming up to me wanting to buy my things after the show. It was really wonderful.”
“I am in the process of making a web page and having more pieces made,” Dave said. She added that she thought the show was so successful in part because it “represented my heritage and culture. It was not completely Indian and not completely American. It’s my western side mixed with my non-western side. It seemed to appeal to a lot of people. I also had some full-figured pieces and some full-figured models. I think as a result it appealed to more people. They could see themselves wearing it on vacation. Not everyone is a size zero. The average woman is a 12 or 14.”
She said when she decided to do the show, she just thought it would be a good experience, and never imagined she would get the large outpouring of interest. “I had a lot of fun doing it. It was an amazing experience, and the reception was beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” she said.
For more about the magazine, check http://ift.tt/1hXfdYs and http://ift.tt/1jSu1hX.
For more about her fashion designs, check http://ift.tt/1okk2Ux.
via fashion - Google News http://ift.tt/1pCVfZa
Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Spring fashion at the farmers market - KOMO News
It’s officially spring, which means going to the farmer’s market should definitely be part of your weekend routine. We are lucky to have Pike Place Market year round, but the other little markets that pop up in places like Ballard and West Seattle really do bring a vibrancy to our city.
I know it may sound silly to get dressed up to go to the farmers market, but the effortless cool style that we all try to pull off is meant for places like this.
On any given sunny weekend day, you will find the markets alive with people. People want to be outside and surrounded by beautiful things. The colorful fruit, vegetables and flowers are a definite draw. I believe it’s the spring color vibes that influence people to have a little more fun with their fashion.
It’s perfectly fine to dress in our usual winter blacks, but that bright dress you’ve had packed away since last year or that new romper you just bought can finally come out to play here.
Now it’s not warm enough to wear a spring dress without a jacket, and a must-have spring staple is the jean jacket. It also perfectly complements anything bright you may want to wear. But don’t put away your winter coats just yet. If you’re a weekend early riser the weather is still crisp, but mix in a pair of colorful pants to spring it up.
How about the shoes? You will most likely be walking for over an hour and carrying all of your finds with you. So, flats are perfect. The hot shoe trend for spring is prints.
Have fun with it. That’s really the essence of the farmers market. It’s a place to enjoy yourself and relish in spring colors. So, break out your dresses, colorful scarves, jean jackets and fun shoes and head down to the farmers market this weekend.
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Magazine founder/editor from South Brunswick launches a fashion collection - MyCentralJersey.com
Although, the fabrics are from India, Tirusha Dave’s clothing designs differ from traditional Indian clothing. Tank tops, cropped tops, bared midriffs and more are featured in many of her designs.
A teacher by day and a magazine editor/writer by night, Dave’s fashion design sketches were just a hobby in what little spare time she had. But after friends and co-workers kept encouraging her, Dave, of South Brunswick, took the sketches to fashion show producers. As a result, her debut collection of resort wear was showcased during Atlantic City Fashion Week in February.
“I had been sketching for a while, and people kept telling me your sketches are really good, you should really pursue it,” she said. “I had a lot of feedback from fashion show producers and models, so I took a leap of faith, linked up with a tailor and put together my debut.”
Dave said she sold many of the pieces in her collection at the show and is now exploring ways to continue to manufacture more pieces and continue to show her collection.
She was already involved in the fashion industry through her position as editor of the online South Asian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, called Bravura Magazine, which Dave started. “I have always been interested in writing and fashion, so the magazine combined my interests, and it filled a void.” Dave started Bravura after she graduated from college, after having built her reputation as a writer, publishing in numerous South Asian publications.
“I have been very fortunate, interviewing and meeting numerous Bollywood celebrities, such as director Kunal Kohli.” She said she had also worked with many other Bollywood stars. “Our magazine has been invited to major fashion events, such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Couture Fashion Week and Atlantic City Fashion Week.” She said they had also been invited to mainstream movie premieres such as Superman and The Great Gatsby.
She explained her reasoning for starting the magazine. “When I was doing my writing internships in college, there wasn’t that one online portal that catered to any reader in our generation, it was either gender-specific or subject-specific. I really wanted to mix it up. I also felt there was a lack of a South Asian magazine for the younger generation.”
(Page 2 of 2)
Dave said her background, having Indian parents, but being born in the U.S., made her uniquely aware of the void in the magazine area. Likewise, her fashion interests combined her Indian heritage with her U.S. background. “I am not a traditional Indian designer,” she laughed. “Not with my resort wear, bikinis and cropped tops. But people, both Indian and non-Indian were very responsive. I had so many people coming up to me wanting to buy my things after the show. It was really wonderful.”
“I am in the process of making a web page and having more pieces made,” Dave said. She added that she thought the show was so successful in part because it “represented my heritage and culture. It was not completely Indian and not completely American. It’s my western side mixed with my non-western side. It seemed to appeal to a lot of people. I also had some full-figured pieces and some full-figured models. I think as a result it appealed to more people. They could see themselves wearing it on vacation. Not everyone is a size zero. The average woman is a 12 or 14.”
She said when she decided to do the show, she just thought it would be a good experience, and never imagined she would get the large outpouring of interest. “I had a lot of fun doing it. It was an amazing experience, and the reception was beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” she said.
For more about the magazine, check http://ift.tt/1hXfdYs and http://ift.tt/1jSu1hX.
For more about her fashion designs, check http://ift.tt/1okk2Ux.
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Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Spring fashion at the farmers market - KOMO News
It’s officially spring, which means going to the farmer’s market should definitely be part of your weekend routine. We are lucky to have Pike Place Market year round, but the other little markets that pop up in places like Ballard and West Seattle really do bring a vibrancy to our city.
I know it may sound silly to get dressed up to go to the farmers market, but the effortless cool style that we all try to pull off is meant for places like this.
On any given sunny weekend day, you will find the markets alive with people. People want to be outside and surrounded by beautiful things. The colorful fruit, vegetables and flowers are a definite draw. I believe it’s the spring color vibes that influence people to have a little more fun with their fashion.
It’s perfectly fine to dress in our usual winter blacks, but that bright dress you’ve had packed away since last year or that new romper you just bought can finally come out to play here.
Now it’s not warm enough to wear a spring dress without a jacket, and a must-have spring staple is the jean jacket. It also perfectly complements anything bright you may want to wear. But don’t put away your winter coats just yet. If you’re a weekend early riser the weather is still crisp, but mix in a pair of colorful pants to spring it up.
How about the shoes? You will most likely be walking for over an hour and carrying all of your finds with you. So, flats are perfect. The hot shoe trend for spring is prints.
Have fun with it. That’s really the essence of the farmers market. It’s a place to enjoy yourself and relish in spring colors. So, break out your dresses, colorful scarves, jean jackets and fun shoes and head down to the farmers market this weekend.
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Magazine founder/editor from South Brunswick launches a fashion collection - MyCentralJersey.com
Although, the fabrics are from India, Tirusha Dave’s clothing designs differ from traditional Indian clothing. Tank tops, cropped tops, bared midriffs and more are featured in many of her designs.
A teacher by day and a magazine editor/writer by night, Dave’s fashion design sketches were just a hobby in what little spare time she had. But after friends and co-workers kept encouraging her, Dave, of South Brunswick, took the sketches to fashion show producers. As a result, her debut collection of resort wear was showcased during Atlantic City Fashion Week in February.
“I had been sketching for a while, and people kept telling me your sketches are really good, you should really pursue it,” she said. “I had a lot of feedback from fashion show producers and models, so I took a leap of faith, linked up with a tailor and put together my debut.”
Dave said she sold many of the pieces in her collection at the show and is now exploring ways to continue to manufacture more pieces and continue to show her collection.
She was already involved in the fashion industry through her position as editor of the online South Asian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, called Bravura Magazine, which Dave started. “I have always been interested in writing and fashion, so the magazine combined my interests, and it filled a void.” Dave started Bravura after she graduated from college, after having built her reputation as a writer, publishing in numerous South Asian publications.
“I have been very fortunate, interviewing and meeting numerous Bollywood celebrities, such as director Kunal Kohli.” She said she had also worked with many other Bollywood stars. “Our magazine has been invited to major fashion events, such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Couture Fashion Week and Atlantic City Fashion Week.” She said they had also been invited to mainstream movie premieres such as Superman and The Great Gatsby.
She explained her reasoning for starting the magazine. “When I was doing my writing internships in college, there wasn’t that one online portal that catered to any reader in our generation, it was either gender-specific or subject-specific. I really wanted to mix it up. I also felt there was a lack of a South Asian magazine for the younger generation.”
(Page 2 of 2)
Dave said her background, having Indian parents, but being born in the U.S., made her uniquely aware of the void in the magazine area. Likewise, her fashion interests combined her Indian heritage with her U.S. background. “I am not a traditional Indian designer,” she laughed. “Not with my resort wear, bikinis and cropped tops. But people, both Indian and non-Indian were very responsive. I had so many people coming up to me wanting to buy my things after the show. It was really wonderful.”
“I am in the process of making a web page and having more pieces made,” Dave said. She added that she thought the show was so successful in part because it “represented my heritage and culture. It was not completely Indian and not completely American. It’s my western side mixed with my non-western side. It seemed to appeal to a lot of people. I also had some full-figured pieces and some full-figured models. I think as a result it appealed to more people. They could see themselves wearing it on vacation. Not everyone is a size zero. The average woman is a 12 or 14.”
She said when she decided to do the show, she just thought it would be a good experience, and never imagined she would get the large outpouring of interest. “I had a lot of fun doing it. It was an amazing experience, and the reception was beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” she said.
For more about the magazine, check http://ift.tt/1hXfdYs and http://ift.tt/1jSu1hX.
For more about her fashion designs, check http://www.facebook.
com/DesignsByTirusha.
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Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Spring fashion at the farmers market - KOMO News
It’s officially spring, which means going to the farmer’s market should definitely be part of your weekend routine. We are lucky to have Pike Place Market year round, but the other little markets that pop up in places like Ballard and West Seattle really do bring a vibrancy to our city.
I know it may sound silly to get dressed up to go to the farmers market, but the effortless cool style that we all try to pull off is meant for places like this.
On any given sunny weekend day, you will find the markets alive with people. People want to be outside and surrounded by beautiful things. The colorful fruit, vegetables and flowers are a definite draw. I believe it’s the spring color vibes that influence people to have a little more fun with their fashion.
It’s perfectly fine to dress in our usual winter blacks, but that bright dress you’ve had packed away since last year or that new romper you just bought can finally come out to play here.
Now it’s not warm enough to wear a spring dress without a jacket, and a must-have spring staple is the jean jacket. It also perfectly complements anything bright you may want to wear. But don’t put away your winter coats just yet. If you’re a weekend early riser the weather is still crisp, but mix in a pair of colorful pants to spring it up.
How about the shoes? You will most likely be walking for over an hour and carrying all of your finds with you. So, flats are perfect. The hot shoe trend for spring is prints.
Have fun with it. That’s really the essence of the farmers market. It’s a place to enjoy yourself and relish in spring colors. So, break out your dresses, colorful scarves, jean jackets and fun shoes and head down to the farmers market this weekend.
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Magazine founder/editor from South Brunswick launches a fashion collection - MyCentralJersey.com
Although, the fabrics are from India, Tirusha Dave’s clothing designs differ from traditional Indian clothing. Tank tops, cropped tops, bared midriffs and more are featured in many of her designs.
A teacher by day and a magazine editor/writer by night, Dave’s fashion design sketches were just a hobby in what little spare time she had. But after friends and co-workers kept encouraging her, Dave, of South Brunswick, took the sketches to fashion show producers. As a result, her debut collection of resort wear was showcased during Atlantic City Fashion Week in February.
“I had been sketching for a while, and people kept telling me your sketches are really good, you should really pursue it,” she said. “I had a lot of feedback from fashion show producers and models, so I took a leap of faith, linked up with a tailor and put together my debut.”
Dave said she sold many of the pieces in her collection at the show and is now exploring ways to continue to manufacture more pieces and continue to show her collection.
She was already involved in the fashion industry through her position as editor of the online South Asian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, called Bravura Magazine, which Dave started. “I have always been interested in writing and fashion, so the magazine combined my interests, and it filled a void.” Dave started Bravura after she graduated from college, after having built her reputation as a writer, publishing in numerous South Asian publications.
“I have been very fortunate, interviewing and meeting numerous Bollywood celebrities, such as director Kunal Kohli.” She said she had also worked with many other Bollywood stars. “Our magazine has been invited to major fashion events, such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Couture Fashion Week and Atlantic City Fashion Week.” She said they had also been invited to mainstream movie premieres such as Superman and The Great Gatsby.
She explained her reasoning for starting the magazine. “When I was doing my writing internships in college, there wasn’t that one online portal that catered to any reader in our generation, it was either gender-specific or subject-specific. I really wanted to mix it up. I also felt there was a lack of a South Asian magazine for the younger generation.”
(Page 2 of 2)
Dave said her background, having Indian parents, but being born in the U.S., made her uniquely aware of the void in the magazine area. Likewise, her fashion interests combined her Indian heritage with her U.S. background. “I am not a traditional Indian designer,” she laughed. “Not with my resort wear, bikinis and cropped tops. But people, both Indian and non-Indian were very responsive. I had so many people coming up to me wanting to buy my things after the show. It was really wonderful.”
“I am in the process of making a web page and having more pieces made,” Dave said. She added that she thought the show was so successful in part because it “represented my heritage and culture. It was not completely Indian and not completely American. It’s my western side mixed with my non-western side. It seemed to appeal to a lot of people. I also had some full-figured pieces and some full-figured models. I think as a result it appealed to more people. They could see themselves wearing it on vacation. Not everyone is a size zero. The average woman is a 12 or 14.”
She said when she decided to do the show, she just thought it would be a good experience, and never imagined she would get the large outpouring of interest. “I had a lot of fun doing it. It was an amazing experience, and the reception was beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” she said.
For more about the magazine, check http://ift.tt/1hXfdYs and http://ift.tt/1jSu1hX.
For more about her fashion designs, check http://www.facebook.
com/DesignsByTirusha.
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Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Spring fashion at the farmers market - KOMO News
It’s officially spring, which means going to the farmer’s market should definitely be part of your weekend routine. We are lucky to have Pike Place Market year round, but the other little markets that pop up in places like Ballard and West Seattle really do bring a vibrancy to our city.
I know it may sound silly to get dressed up to go to the farmers market, but the effortless cool style that we all try to pull off is meant for places like this.
On any given sunny weekend day, you will find the markets alive with people. People want to be outside and surrounded by beautiful things. The colorful fruit, vegetables and flowers are a definite draw. I believe it’s the spring color vibes that influence people to have a little more fun with their fashion.
It’s perfectly fine to dress in our usual winter blacks, but that bright dress you’ve had packed away since last year or that new romper you just bought can finally come out to play here.
Now it’s not warm enough to wear a spring dress without a jacket, and a must-have spring staple is the jean jacket. It also perfectly complements anything bright you may want to wear. But don’t put away your winter coats just yet. If you’re a weekend early riser the weather is still crisp, but mix in a pair of colorful pants to spring it up.
How about the shoes? You will most likely be walking for over an hour and carrying all of your finds with you. So, flats are perfect. The hot shoe trend for spring is prints.
Have fun with it. That’s really the essence of the farmers market. It’s a place to enjoy yourself and relish in spring colors. So, break out your dresses, colorful scarves, jean jackets and fun shoes and head down to the farmers market this weekend.
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Magazine founder/editor from South Brunswick launches a fashion collection - MyCentralJersey.com
Although, the fabrics are from India, Tirusha Dave’s clothing designs differ from traditional Indian clothing. Tank tops, cropped tops, bared midriffs and more are featured in many of her designs.
A teacher by day and a magazine editor/writer by night, Dave’s fashion design sketches were just a hobby in what little spare time she had. But after friends and co-workers kept encouraging her, Dave, of South Brunswick, took the sketches to fashion show producers. As a result, her debut collection of resort wear was showcased during Atlantic City Fashion Week in February.
“I had been sketching for a while, and people kept telling me your sketches are really good, you should really pursue it,” she said. “I had a lot of feedback from fashion show producers and models, so I took a leap of faith, linked up with a tailor and put together my debut.”
Dave said she sold many of the pieces in her collection at the show and is now exploring ways to continue to manufacture more pieces and continue to show her collection.
She was already involved in the fashion industry through her position as editor of the online South Asian fashion, entertainment and lifestyle magazine, called Bravura Magazine, which Dave started. “I have always been interested in writing and fashion, so the magazine combined my interests, and it filled a void.” Dave started Bravura after she graduated from college, after having built her reputation as a writer, publishing in numerous South Asian publications.
“I have been very fortunate, interviewing and meeting numerous Bollywood celebrities, such as director Kunal Kohli.” She said she had also worked with many other Bollywood stars. “Our magazine has been invited to major fashion events, such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Couture Fashion Week and Atlantic City Fashion Week.” She said they had also been invited to mainstream movie premieres such as Superman and The Great Gatsby.
She explained her reasoning for starting the magazine. “When I was doing my writing internships in college, there wasn’t that one online portal that catered to any reader in our generation, it was either gender-specific or subject-specific. I really wanted to mix it up. I also felt there was a lack of a South Asian magazine for the younger generation.”
(Page 2 of 2)
Dave said her background, having Indian parents, but being born in the U.S., made her uniquely aware of the void in the magazine area. Likewise, her fashion interests combined her Indian heritage with her U.S. background. “I am not a traditional Indian designer,” she laughed. “Not with my resort wear, bikinis and cropped tops. But people, both Indian and non-Indian were very responsive. I had so many people coming up to me wanting to buy my things after the show. It was really wonderful.”
“I am in the process of making a web page and having more pieces made,” Dave said. She added that she thought the show was so successful in part because it “represented my heritage and culture. It was not completely Indian and not completely American. It’s my western side mixed with my non-western side. It seemed to appeal to a lot of people. I also had some full-figured pieces and some full-figured models. I think as a result it appealed to more people. They could see themselves wearing it on vacation. Not everyone is a size zero. The average woman is a 12 or 14.”
She said when she decided to do the show, she just thought it would be a good experience, and never imagined she would get the large outpouring of interest. “I had a lot of fun doing it. It was an amazing experience, and the reception was beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” she said.
For more about the magazine, check http://ift.tt/1hXfdYs and http://ift.tt/1jSu1hX.
For more about her fashion designs, check http://www.facebook.
com/DesignsByTirusha.
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Emma Watson Gets Real About The Fashion Industry's Biggest Problem In New ... - Huffington Post
Just when we thought we couldn't love Emma Watson any more than we already did, she goes ahead and proves us wrong with some seriously wise words.
The 23-year-old actress has been more on top of her style game than ever on the press tour for her new film "Noah." However, it turns out she has some choice words for the fashion industry -- more specifically its negative effect on young women, and its unrealistic approach to beauty. In an interview with The Guardian, she explains:
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.
While we can all agree that Ms. Watson is absolutely gorgeous, it is refreshing to hear that she is not only aware of the dangers from industry pressure, but seemingly has a handle on them as well. Cheers to imperfections, Emma!
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Fashion Trucks Wheel Their Way Into Los Angeles - ABC News (blog)
Mar 27, 2014 2:59pm
(Stacey Steffe)
The food and juice truck craze has been around for years, but the latest trend might seem a little fabricated: fashion trucks.
It’s exactly what it sounds like: Fashionistas can get their shopping done from trucks parked around Los Angeles carrying clothes and accessories.
“It’s fun, and it’s definitely different from shopping at the mall,” said Monique Cruz, who owns Selvedge Dry Goods, a vintage clothing boutique on wheels she launched February 2013. “We shop a lot of the estate sales and flea markets, and if an item is in good condition we sell it as is, and if we feel like we can update an item to make it more stylish for the time, we will reconstruct it to fit the time. Everything in the truck is recycled, vintage or handmade.”
Read More: Peddling Fashions a la Food Trucks
Although the idea may seem tailor made for a fashion city like Los Angeles, it’s not growing in popularity as rapidly as food trucks did.
“It is definitely evolving, but maybe not as quickly, because there are setbacks being mobile – like permitting per city can be different,” Cruz said. “But we finished our first year of business and we’re still going. Some people think you just pop up and open your doors, but it doesn’t work that way. You have to ask permission from the city before you set up shop.”
Stacey Steffe, who co-owns Le Fashion Truck with her partner, said there are a lot of benefits to owning retail trucks.
“It goes back to that idea of location, location, location!” Steffe said. “So I get to work in a city where I might not be able to afford to have a brick and mortar, but I can take my truck there once a week or whatever it is. We can take our mobile boutique to different cities in L.A. County.”
The appeal for customers, she said, is they get to shop unique, original items that they might not find in bigger department stores.
“Most of us are making items ourselves, whether it’s clothing or jewelry,” she said. “And we actually team up with local designers, so we are allowing customers to discover these brands.”
Dana Calabrese Ensrud, a Hollywood fashion stylist who studied at Paris College of Art in France, said she loves fashion trucks, but still depends on traditional department stores.
“The appeal is the experience. Everyone wants to run home and tell their friends, ‘Look what I bought at a truck!’” Ensrud said. “On one hand, you’re creating this fun, fresh new way to shop. But when I’m in a bind on a Friday night, my department store is always there for me. I won’t be thinking, ‘Let me hunt down that truck.’”
Besides running her truck, Steffe also co-founded the American Mobile Retail Association with a private Facebook page for members where they can get consulting services for a new business, benefits and discounts on certain goods, and network with others in the retail truck community.
“We all go through the same struggle, like finding rules and regulations that allow us to operate. Most cities don’t have regulations for mobile boutiques, so it helps people navigate through that,” Steffe said. “Other mobile owners can communicate with each other. It’s a great networking tool for owners to share suggestions.”
Cruz, who posts the Selvedge Dry Goods truck’s time and location on Twitter and Instagram weekly, said there is a real appeal to the trucks, especially to tourists.
“Parked on the Santa Monica Pier, we get a lot of international tourists from all of the world and it’s always exciting for them to see and something to take back to their country,” Cruz said. “When you are on vacation, you want to see something cool and new so they tweet and Instagram about it to their friends, and when they go back home they buy from us online at Etsy.com.”
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Fashion on wheels - owner brings merchandise to the shoppers - StarNewsOnline.com
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Search still on for missing fashion designer, Pine-Richland alumnus James Ott - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
fashion show aims to raise awareness for organ donation - The Express-Times
Bethlehem Township, Pa., resident Sue Seidel’s son was killed in a motorcycle crash when he was only 22, but she doesn’t mind talking about it.
Telling what happened to Brian, a 1998 Freedom High School graduate, allows Seidel to also share how his organs were used to save and enhance the lives of nine people.
Sharing the story of Brian’s organ donation and encouraging others to become organ donors is what Seidel says has helped keep her going in the 11 1/2 years since his death. She serves as president of the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Organ and Tissue Donation, a chapter of the Gift of Life program.
“Quite honestly, it’s been my lifeline,” Seidel said. “If I didn’t have the Gift of Life and being able to share Brian’s story … and knowing from his untimely death that something good came out of it, I don’t know how I’d survive.”
The local chapter is holding a fashion show Saturday for organ donation awareness and to raise funds for more education efforts. The show is at noon at The Outlets at Sands Bethlehem; tickets are $25 and include drinks and appetizers.
Seidel will serve as a model in the show, which is the local chapter’s fourth annual.
“Being around the other recipients and other donor families — it’s just like any other support group. You’re there for each other,” she said.
Other models include a 3 1/2-year-old girl from Bucks County whose life was saved by a donated liver, and a 7 1/2-year-old boy from Lancaster County in need of a liver donation, said Mark Richardson, of Hanover Township, Northampton County, who has undergone two organ donations.
Richardson, 44, was born with blocked ureters. He received his first donated kidney from his mother in 1988 and received a second one from a deceased donor in 2007.
With the average transplanted kidney lasting 15 to 20 years, there’s a good chance Richardson will eventually need another.
“Just because you get a transplant, it’s not a cure. It’s just a temporary situation,” he said. “There are so many people waiting for organ donors, but not enough people sign up.”
That’s why Richardson got involved with the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Organ and Tissue Donation and Saturday’s fashion show. The show is less about selling tickets and more about getting the coalition’s cause before a large crowd of shoppers, he said.
“If we have five people come that day who weren’t organ donors and signed up to be organ donors, it’s a success,” he said.
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NYC police search for missing fashion designer Jay Ott, a Pine-Richland alumnus - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Christina Hendricks Reveals 'The Worst Crime In Fashion We've Ever Had' To ... - Huffington Post
Now this is how you do sexy.
Christina Hendricks is widely praised for her role as Joan Holloway on "Mad Men," but along the way she has become a style icon in her own right, demonstrating the proper way to accentuate curves and serving as a role model for real women everywhere.
Now, in an interview and film with The Edit, Net-A-Porter's weekly magazine, the actress plays up both her innocent and more sultry looks, opens up about how she thinks the beloved series will end, and explains why she feels the show resonated so well not just with audiences but with the fashion world as well:
When we came out people were wearing jeans with their thongs out, maybe one of the worst crimes in fashion we've ever had. I think people were craving that tailored, put together sense of style and respect for fashion.
Perfectly said, Ms. Hendricks. And we are forever indebted to you for your part in phasing that trend out.
Head over to NET-A-PORTER to read the entire interview, and take a look at some of our favorite photos from the shoot below.
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Fashion Trucks Wheel Their Way Into Los Angeles - ABC News (blog)
Mar 27, 2014 2:59pm
(Stacey Steffe)
The food and juice truck craze has been around for years, but the latest trend might seem a little fabricated: fashion trucks.
It’s exactly what it sounds like: Fashionistas can get their shopping done from trucks parked around Los Angeles carrying clothes and accessories.
“It’s fun, and it’s definitely different from shopping at the mall,” said Monique Cruz, who owns Selvedge Dry Goods, a vintage clothing boutique on wheels she launched February 2013. “We shop a lot of the estate sales and flea markets, and if an item is in good condition we sell it as is, and if we feel like we can update an item to make it more stylish for the time, we will reconstruct it to fit the time. Everything in the truck is recycled, vintage or handmade.”
Read More: Peddling Fashions a la Food Trucks
Although the idea may seem tailor made for a fashion city like Los Angeles, it’s not growing in popularity as rapidly as food trucks did.
“It is definitely evolving, but maybe not as quickly, because there are setbacks being mobile – like permitting per city can be different,” Cruz said. “But we finished our first year of business and we’re still going. Some people think you just pop up and open your doors, but it doesn’t work that way. You have to ask permission from the city before you set up shop.”
Stacey Steffe, who co-owns Le Fashion Truck with her partner, said there are a lot of benefits to owning retail trucks.
“It goes back to that idea of location, location, location!” Steffe said. “So I get to work in a city where I might not be able to afford to have a brick and mortar, but I can take my truck there once a week or whatever it is. We can take our mobile boutique to different cities in L.A. County.”
The appeal for customers, she said, is they get to shop unique, original items that they might not find in bigger department stores.
“Most of us are making items ourselves, whether it’s clothing or jewelry,” she said. “And we actually team up with local designers, so we are allowing customers to discover these brands.”
Dana Calabrese Ensrud, a Hollywood fashion stylist who studied at Paris College of Art in France, said she loves fashion trucks, but still depends on traditional department stores.
“The appeal is the experience. Everyone wants to run home and tell their friends, ‘Look what I bought at a truck!’” Ensrud said. “On one hand, you’re creating this fun, fresh new way to shop. But when I’m in a bind on a Friday night, my department store is always there for me. I won’t be thinking, ‘Let me hunt down that truck.’”
Besides running her truck, Steffe also co-founded the American Mobile Retail Association with a private Facebook page for members where they can get consulting services for a new business, benefits and discounts on certain goods, and network with others in the retail truck community.
“We all go through the same struggle, like finding rules and regulations that allow us to operate. Most cities don’t have regulations for mobile boutiques, so it helps people navigate through that,” Steffe said. “Other mobile owners can communicate with each other. It’s a great networking tool for owners to share suggestions.”
Cruz, who posts the Selvedge Dry Goods truck’s time and location on Twitter and Instagram weekly, said there is a real appeal to the trucks, especially to tourists.
“Parked on the Santa Monica Pier, we get a lot of international tourists from all of the world and it’s always exciting for them to see and something to take back to their country,” Cruz said. “When you are on vacation, you want to see something cool and new so they tweet and Instagram about it to their friends, and when they go back home they buy from us online at Etsy.com.”
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Search still on for missing fashion designer, Pine-Richland alumnus James Ott - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
fashion show aims to raise awareness for organ donation - The Express-Times
Bethlehem Township, Pa., resident Sue Seidel’s son was killed in a motorcycle crash when he was only 22, but she doesn’t mind talking about it.
Telling what happened to Brian, a 1998 Freedom High School graduate, allows Seidel to also share how his organs were used to save and enhance the lives of nine people.
Sharing the story of Brian’s organ donation and encouraging others to become organ donors is what Seidel says has helped keep her going in the 11 1/2 years since his death. She serves as president of the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Organ and Tissue Donation, a chapter of the Gift of Life program.
“Quite honestly, it’s been my lifeline,” Seidel said. “If I didn’t have the Gift of Life and being able to share Brian’s story … and knowing from his untimely death that something good came out of it, I don’t know how I’d survive.”
The local chapter is holding a fashion show Saturday for organ donation awareness and to raise funds for more education efforts. The show is at noon at The Outlets at Sands Bethlehem; tickets are $25 and include drinks and appetizers.
Seidel will serve as a model in the show, which is the local chapter’s fourth annual.
“Being around the other recipients and other donor families — it’s just like any other support group. You’re there for each other,” she said.
Other models include a 3 1/2-year-old girl from Bucks County whose life was saved by a donated liver, and a 7 1/2-year-old boy from Lancaster County in need of a liver donation, said Mark Richardson, of Hanover Township, Northampton County, who has undergone two organ donations.
Richardson, 44, was born with blocked ureters. He received his first donated kidney from his mother in 1988 and received a second one from a deceased donor in 2007.
With the average transplanted kidney lasting 15 to 20 years, there’s a good chance Richardson will eventually need another.
“Just because you get a transplant, it’s not a cure. It’s just a temporary situation,” he said. “There are so many people waiting for organ donors, but not enough people sign up.”
That’s why Richardson got involved with the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Organ and Tissue Donation and Saturday’s fashion show. The show is less about selling tickets and more about getting the coalition’s cause before a large crowd of shoppers, he said.
“If we have five people come that day who weren’t organ donors and signed up to be organ donors, it’s a success,” he said.
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NYC police search for missing fashion designer Jay Ott, a Pine-Richland alumnus - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Christina Hendricks Reveals 'The Worst Crime In Fashion We've Ever Had' To ... - Huffington Post
Now this is how you do sexy.
Christina Hendricks is widely praised for her role as Joan Holloway on "Mad Men," but along the way she has become a style icon in her own right, demonstrating the proper way to accentuate curves and serving as a role model for real women everywhere.
Now, in an interview and film with The Edit, Net-A-Porter's weekly magazine, the actress plays up both her innocent and more sultry looks, opens up about how she thinks the beloved series will end, and explains why she feels the show resonated so well not just with audiences but with the fashion world as well:
When we came out people were wearing jeans with their thongs out, maybe one of the worst crimes in fashion we've ever had. I think people were craving that tailored, put together sense of style and respect for fashion.
Perfectly said, Ms. Hendricks. And we are forever indebted to you for your part in phasing that trend out.
Head over to NET-A-PORTER to read the entire interview, and take a look at some of our favorite photos from the shoot below.
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Fashion Trucks Wheel Their Way Into Los Angeles - ABC News (blog)
Mar 27, 2014 2:59pm
(Stacey Steffe)
The food and juice truck craze has been around for years, but the latest trend might seem a little fabricated: fashion trucks.
It’s exactly what it sounds like: Fashionistas can get their shopping done from trucks parked around Los Angeles carrying clothes and accessories.
“It’s fun, and it’s definitely different from shopping at the mall,” said Monique Cruz, who owns Selvedge Dry Goods, a vintage clothing boutique on wheels she launched February 2013. “We shop a lot of the estate sales and flea markets, and if an item is in good condition we sell it as is, and if we feel like we can update an item to make it more stylish for the time, we will reconstruct it to fit the time. Everything in the truck is recycled, vintage or handmade.”
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Although the idea may seem tailor made for a fashion city like Los Angeles, it’s not growing in popularity as rapidly as food trucks did.
“It is definitely evolving, but maybe not as quickly, because there are setbacks being mobile – like permitting per city can be different,” Cruz said. “But we finished our first year of business and we’re still going. Some people think you just pop up and open your doors, but it doesn’t work that way. You have to ask permission from the city before you set up shop.”
Stacey Steffe, who co-owns Le Fashion Truck with her partner, said there are a lot of benefits to owning retail trucks.
“It goes back to that idea of location, location, location!” Steffe said. “So I get to work in a city where I might not be able to afford to have a brick and mortar, but I can take my truck there once a week or whatever it is. We can take our mobile boutique to different cities in L.A. County.”
The appeal for customers, she said, is they get to shop unique, original items that they might not find in bigger department stores.
“Most of us are making items ourselves, whether it’s clothing or jewelry,” she said. “And we actually team up with local designers, so we are allowing customers to discover these brands.”
Dana Calabrese Ensrud, a Hollywood fashion stylist who studied at Paris College of Art in France, said she loves fashion trucks, but still depends on traditional department stores.
“The appeal is the experience. Everyone wants to run home and tell their friends, ‘Look what I bought at a truck!’” Ensrud said. “On one hand, you’re creating this fun, fresh new way to shop. But when I’m in a bind on a Friday night, my department store is always there for me. I won’t be thinking, ‘Let me hunt down that truck.’”
Besides running her truck, Steffe also co-founded the American Mobile Retail Association with a private Facebook page for members where they can get consulting services for a new business, benefits and discounts on certain goods, and network with others in the retail truck community.
“We all go through the same struggle, like finding rules and regulations that allow us to operate. Most cities don’t have regulations for mobile boutiques, so it helps people navigate through that,” Steffe said. “Other mobile owners can communicate with each other. It’s a great networking tool for owners to share suggestions.”
Cruz, who posts the Selvedge Dry Goods truck’s time and location on Twitter and Instagram weekly, said there is a real appeal to the trucks, especially to tourists.
“Parked on the Santa Monica Pier, we get a lot of international tourists from all of the world and it’s always exciting for them to see and something to take back to their country,” Cruz said. “When you are on vacation, you want to see something cool and new so they tweet and Instagram about it to their friends, and when they go back home they buy from us online at Etsy.com.”
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Fashion on wheels - owner brings merchandise to the shoppers - StarNewsOnline.com
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Search still on for missing fashion designer, Pine-Richland alumnus James Ott - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
fashion show aims to raise awareness for organ donation - The Express-Times
Bethlehem Township, Pa., resident Sue Seidel’s son was killed in a motorcycle crash when he was only 22, but she doesn’t mind talking about it.
Telling what happened to Brian, a 1998 Freedom High School graduate, allows Seidel to also share how his organs were used to save and enhance the lives of nine people.
Sharing the story of Brian’s organ donation and encouraging others to become organ donors is what Seidel says has helped keep her going in the 11 1/2 years since his death. She serves as president of the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Organ and Tissue Donation, a chapter of the Gift of Life program.
“Quite honestly, it’s been my lifeline,” Seidel said. “If I didn’t have the Gift of Life and being able to share Brian’s story … and knowing from his untimely death that something good came out of it, I don’t know how I’d survive.”
The local chapter is holding a fashion show Saturday for organ donation awareness and to raise funds for more education efforts. The show is at noon at The Outlets at Sands Bethlehem; tickets are $25 and include drinks and appetizers.
Seidel will serve as a model in the show, which is the local chapter’s fourth annual.
“Being around the other recipients and other donor families — it’s just like any other support group. You’re there for each other,” she said.
Other models include a 3 1/2-year-old girl from Bucks County whose life was saved by a donated liver, and a 7 1/2-year-old boy from Lancaster County in need of a liver donation, said Mark Richardson, of Hanover Township, Northampton County, who has undergone two organ donations.
Richardson, 44, was born with blocked ureters. He received his first donated kidney from his mother in 1988 and received a second one from a deceased donor in 2007.
With the average transplanted kidney lasting 15 to 20 years, there’s a good chance Richardson will eventually need another.
“Just because you get a transplant, it’s not a cure. It’s just a temporary situation,” he said. “There are so many people waiting for organ donors, but not enough people sign up.”
That’s why Richardson got involved with the Lehigh Valley Coalition for Organ and Tissue Donation and Saturday’s fashion show. The show is less about selling tickets and more about getting the coalition’s cause before a large crowd of shoppers, he said.
“If we have five people come that day who weren’t organ donors and signed up to be organ donors, it’s a success,” he said.
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